Software for mathematics education - Piet van Blokland
Software for mathematical education that draws on David Tall's philosophy of teaching: use Graphic Calculus to visualize, explore, and conceptualize the graph of a linear function; analyze the data and simulations included with VUStat to learn statistics
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Software's Origin - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
Librarian Fred R. Shapiro of the Yale Law School in New Haven, Conn., searched for the word software among scholarly journals electronically archived in the JSTOR database and found that the term software used to describe computer programs dates back
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Soler's Fractal Site
Fractal galleries of images made using Tierazon and other programs, links, downloads of fractal-generating programs, and articles on fractals.
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Solids Workshop - FacticsMax
A program that allows you to select a square, triangular, pentagonal, or hexagonal prism, pyramid, or frustum; or a cylinder or cone, choose the height, side, (and frustum height) you desire, and print out a net pattern that will fold up into the selected
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Solitaire-y Sequences - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
Solitaire on the computer screen - called Klondike or Idiot's Delight, this form of solitaire has resisted mathematical analysis. Partly because Klondike involves player choice, no one has yet been able to construct a mathematical model of the game from
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Solving Equations - Don Cohen (The Mathman)
Make equations or open sentences true by guessing. Equations with X's on both sides; quadratic equations (11 ways to solve a quadratic equation); using balance pictures to solve equations. Sample problems with some answers from Chapter 8 of Don Cohen's
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Solving-Math-Problems
Type up your math questions for free help or see step-by-step instructions on solving problems that involve sets, equations, exponents, roots, or real numbers, such using the number line to compare two decimals or using direct comparison (equivalence)
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Solving Quadratic Equations - Prakash Sukhu
Introduces the general form of the quadratic equation, and shows how to solve the quadratic equation step by step. Includes methods of factorisation and completing the square, questions to test your knowledge, and an online equation solver with which
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Solving the Quintic with Mathematica - Wolfram, Inc.
Solving the Quintic - The impossibility of solving general quintics in radicals, Tschirnhaus's transformation, Klein's approach to the quintic, Solutions based on series, Solutions based on differential equations, Equations of higher degree. Steps to
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Solving the Rubik's Cube - Matthew Monroe
Instructions, popularized by Minh Thai, the National Champion cube solver, for solving a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube. Also, instructions for how to solve a cube when it has oriented pictures on each face. Directions for solving a 2x2x2 Rubik's mini cube, the professor
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The Soma Cube Puzzle - Modvix
Purchase the Soma Cube. Piet Hein, a Danish poet and inventor, visualized the set of all irregular shapes formed by no more than 4 cubes, each of the same size, and realized that the seven simplest irregular combinations of cubes can form a larger Soma
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Some Golden Geometry - Rashomon (K. Wiedman)
The Golden Mean is a ratio that is present in the growth patterns of many things - the spiral formed by a shell or the curve of a fern, for example. This page (also found at http://tony.ai/KW/goldengeom.html) gives instructions for constructing the Golden
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Some Things I've Written - Jennifer Gutbezahl
Research from the author's doctoral studies in social psychology. Gutbezahl's dissertation focused on how attributions for success and failure in mathematics affect how well students do in math class: "How Negative Expectancies and Attitudes Undermine
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Some Thoughts on Measurement - Harold Brochmann
All measurements inherently have limited precision; it isn't sensible to give credence to measurements if you are dealing with a piece of ordinary paper and an ordinary wooden or plastic ruler, no matter how careful the person measuring has been. This
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Some Variations on the Theme of Polyominos - Recmath
Patterns that illustrate how the squares of polyominos are connected to each other. Examples of polyominos with a grid superimposed to illustrate the individual squares; with a line that joins the mid-point of two adjacent square if the squares are connected.
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Sommer Cube - Michael Sommer
The faces of the modular Sommer Cube (S3) feed into twisted conduits that comprise a three-dimensional, tunnelling maze. The website provides example arrangements and construction questions such as "Given that a ball must exit at the lowest S3 level and
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So Much Data - William D. May
Based on the book So Much Data, So Little Math, tools for learning to do simple data analysis on data sets. Features the online calculation tools "Easy Correlation Calculations" and "Easy Trend Prediction," with explanations, as well as an example of
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sonata mathematique - Rachel Kernodle
Blog by a high school math and learning specialist. Posts, which date back to June, 2011, have included "twitter math camp," "mathematical art," "i also want you to learn…," and "rational functions take two."
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Sophie's Diary - Dora Musielak
Historical fiction based on mathematician Sophie Germain. Site includes book excerpts, a Spanish version of the main page, a press release, information about the author, favorite links, contact information, and illustrations from the book of Paris in
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Sovel Pre-Algebra Class - Barry Sovel
In mathematics, we can use the term 'rule', but in reality, there are no rules, only proofs; therefore, we must be able to demonstrate and prove each mathematical statement and expression before we can apply the tag 'rule' to it. Five such demonstrations
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The Space Between the Numbers - Breedeen Murray
Blog by a math teacher and writer "about how these two aspects are inextricably linked together in my own person, and maybe in yours, too." Posts, which date back to June, 2010, have included "Pink-Slip to Private School," "SBG, Hold the G," "A Different
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SpaceBric
Tetrahedral linking blocks and design software using that shape. Download trial versions of the software or get the fully-featured versions with a registration key. Blocks may be purchased on line as well. SpaceBric also offers school fundraising and
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